Isaiah 42:5 Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

This is the most simple explanation of all the Lord has revealed to me this morning. It sums up all that God has done, every bit of it. Like all summations there goes before it an enormous amount of detail. Take into consideration that in this summary there is no motive. There is not an ounce of offering up what caused God to do what He has done. Nor is there a response of the people so deeply touched by His actions.

We consider ourselves to be complex. We seek motivation and instruction. We desire to find purpose and fulfillment. We tell ourselves in many ways that life is what we make it. We even tell ourselves we are creators. We could fix the world if the world would only listen. Is that vain? You bet.

I have over the years studied the Word of God in great depth. I hear and see by His Holy Spirit things too wonderful to express. At this time, in this moment, God has asked me to express His most profound and life changing Word ever spoken to me, face to face, from the Lord to me.

“I want you to live.”

Isaiah 42:6 I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;

He calls, He holds, He keeps, and for as long as I live He shines.

If you need more, read all of Isaiah 42.

Psalm 34:8 O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

How many of us make the connection between this verse and the Lord’s Supper? Not many I would guess and you would not be alone in that. Many who followed Jesus while He walked in His earthly ministry, while He stood and taught before them, also had difficulty making the connection.

John 6:56 & 60 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?

Being that those men were of a generation who were by law denied the flesh and blood of the sacrifice. It was contrary to their laws and religious rituals to consider such a thing. How could they understand how to keep the law and partake of this bread of life? After all they were only trying to follow after those things that came before them. In verse 66 many of them stopped following Jesus.

What happened to them after they saw the risen Christ? Could they then see and hear and understand as the deeper things were revealed to them?

1 Corinthians 10:1-4 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; And did all eat the same spiritual meat; And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

We are so blessed to get to see all these things explained in the scriptures and made pain to our understanding by the gospel.  Yet there are some who like the Jews of that day, cannot see how they can taste the Lord to see that He is good. They have their own reasons of which there are many.

Hebrews 12:1b let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us,

You cannot get to it until you get over it.